Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:11:51 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: Andreas Eibach Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: "Accent problem" still not fixed in current cygwin release Message-ID: <20000814231151.D1349@OLMY> References: <00ef01c00596$5bbfbea0$ee8706d5 AT default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <00ef01c00596$5bbfbea0$ee8706d5@default>; from a.eibach@gmx.net on Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:21:29AM +0200 Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp. On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:21:29AM +0200, Andreas Eibach wrote: > I can't even write a primitive shell script in this thing because I don't > have the inverted apostroph I need to _execute_ unix commands, eg > > cp -p $1 `echo $2 | sed 's/foo/bar//g'` I'm sure that this won't solve all of your problems, but why not use the equivalent "$(...)" syntax: cp -p $1 $(echo $2 | sed 's/foo/bar//g') Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corporation Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com